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Ahmed Jamal was a legendary jazz pianist known for his unique playing style and innovative improvisation who converted to Islam at the age of 20, finding...

A US justice official calls for the eradication of sex abuse orchestrated by prison officials.

King, rosa parks, malcolm x, we learn way more about slaves and all that. >> reporter: do you feel youre the torch bearers, making sure this history doesnt get forgotten? >> you know, our history is important history. were not trying to indoctrinate or changes peoples perspective. the point of history is to get the facts and build your own opinions. >> learning is limited if its only intellectual enterprise. it doesnt get to the place of the feeling of the emotion. it has not done everything tha...

William Shakespeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, died at the age of 52 on April 23, 1616....

We made a list of Black books beloved by readers everywhere, but that are also heavily targeted by conservatives

Case trying to get some kind of assurance from just stop oil. the world—famous charity fundraising event has some moral clout. the grand nationalfor some people perhaps less so. at the weekend this group, animal rising, disrupted the event in protest at the number of horses who die on those aintree fences. but likejust stop oil the agenda is non—violent, peaceful civil disobedience. martin luther king, not malcolm x. here to discuss this we have indigo rumbelow from just stop oil, and rupert...

We take goats all over san francisco and some of the surrounding bay area to eat down fire hazard as we are here at malcolm x academy. >> reporter: the goats main job is fire prevention because all this green will turn brown and dangerous in californias dry summer. but here at an elementary school, malcolm x academy, the goats can also be educational. >> the students get to come out here and see this, and its a really tangible example of what we do and why we do it. >> reporter: rebecca is lands...

Organization was very involved in the right wing coup that brought my leadership down. rupert, himself, was very actively involved. he proposed another proprietor and said, weve got to get rid of malcolm. stokes said, that is crazy. why would we want to do that? rupert said, stokes said to him -- if we do that, the labour party will win the election. rupert said, three years of labor would not be so bad. he was determined to get rid of me. largely because i was not deferential enough. rupert is ...

Justin pearson for going to college, apparently and running for student government. i have to play this for you. it is so awful. this is just a little bit of tucker carlsons recent rant about justin pearson. take a look. >> he transitioned from a crypto white kid into the modern incarnation of martin luther king jr. himself. it is remarkable, really. you never see politicians transition into malcolm x. why is that? baby because malcolm x did not talk like a sharecropper. >> there is so much raci...

Sculptures in space. they are also personas. they are also histories and monuments of these people. so included in your sculptures are the stelae to malcolm x, the assassinated civil rights activist who was killed in 1965 and a very hugely important figure for you. and you say that his assassination came like a bombshell to you. how did you feel at the time when you heard about his death? and how did that influence the stelae, which have taken you the best part of five decades to make? i had bee...